Search results for "assisted suicide compassionate"
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1.5KInternationalScotland to consider legalizing physician-assisted suicide
UPDATE, 7/6/21: A Scottish physician group, Our Duty of Care, has sent a letter to signed a letter to Health Secretary Humza Yousaf...
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2.8KAnalysisCanada faces pushback over expanding assisted suicide for those with mental illness
Canada’s ever-accelerating expansion of physician-assisted suicide gained significant momentum with the government’s March 2021 decision to allow mental illness as a qualifying...
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2.4KAnalysisShock claim: Assisted suicide is needed so women won’t have ‘burden’ of caring for the sick
The assisted suicide lobby has long argued that doctors should be able to kill their patients so people can avoid what they...
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2.5KHuman RightsConnecticut lawmakers introduce assisted suicide bill again
According to the Hartford Courant, Connecticut lawmakers will again introduce an assisted suicide bill despite multiple failures to pass similar legislation beginning...
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2.5KAnalysisTwo years ago, Ireland legalized abortion. Will assisted suicide be next?
After legalizing abortion just two years ago, euthanasia seems to be next on the agenda in Ireland. A bill to make assisted...
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2.0KHuman InterestWoman with cystic fibrosis planned assisted suicide until a miracle drug gave her hope
In 2013, 33-year-old Jennie Thornton from the United Kingdom announced that she planned to go to Dignitas to die by assisted suicide. Diagnosed...
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2.4KHuman RightsOvercome the myths surrounding assisted suicide to help prevent it
Jeanette Hall was 55 years old when she learned she had inoperable colon cancer. She lived in Oregon and had voted to...
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1.6KAnalysisAssisted suicide deaths 10 times higher than expected in Australian state
In 2017, the state of Victoria became the first state in Australia to legalize assisted suicide. Anyone diagnosed with a terminal disease...
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2.0KInternational‘Intrinsically evil’: New Zealand lawmakers pass legislation to allow assisted suicide
New Zealand legislators have passed a bill that would allow a terminally ill person with a diagnosis of fewer than six months...
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3.8KAnalysisThree reasons a Dutch ethicist changed his mind about assisted suicide
As more countries and states consider legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide, people are warning that legalizing the killing of some patients harms...
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1.7KIssuesSick: First assisted suicide in Australian state of Victoria called ‘an historic moment’
A mother in the Australian state of Victoria has become the first casualty of the state’s legalization of assisted suicide. Kerry Robertson,...
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2.9KNewsbreakNew Jersey has officially legalized assisted suicide
UPDATE, 4/15/19: Friday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed the legislation legalizing assisted suicide. In a statement, Murphy said legalizing assisted suicide...
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4.4KAnalysisStudy: Assisted suicide can be painful, prolonged and inhumane
Assisted suicide activists claim that death by assisted suicide is the relief of suffering and “death with dignity.” But a recent study...
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5.1KIssuesFamilies of assisted suicide victims plead for the killing to end
Proponents of assisted suicide say it should be legal so terminally ill people can die peaceful deaths, as opposed to long, painful...
